diff --git a/devel/p5-Curses/Makefile b/devel/p5-Curses/Makefile
index a0c84e2c3e7c..b9ab260e0e4d 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Curses/Makefile
+++ b/devel/p5-Curses/Makefile
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	Curses
-PORTVERSION=	1.16
+PORTVERSION=	1.17
 CATEGORIES=	devel perl5
 MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
 MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR=	Curses
diff --git a/devel/p5-Curses/distinfo b/devel/p5-Curses/distinfo
index a4ce5dc36324..fc58ef808bfd 100644
--- a/devel/p5-Curses/distinfo
+++ b/devel/p5-Curses/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-MD5 (Curses-1.16.tgz) = 73cdbc3493681abdec37b94c9eb7f887
-SHA256 (Curses-1.16.tgz) = 0eb5c576014ce8f3304181b2d13e9705cdce3f1f9dc28736e55fa1b6548e0f2e
-SIZE (Curses-1.16.tgz) = 85626
+MD5 (Curses-1.17.tgz) = 29a090137e03074f17f40ad47075e0b6
+SHA256 (Curses-1.17.tgz) = f77308189098271949004d2913d948f580edf47a41b795a330c707362264ff89
+SIZE (Curses-1.17.tgz) = 86503